That's depressing, but probably inevitable - the line between dudes who spend thousands pimping their cars to drive slowly down the street and dudes who spend hundreds pimping their bikes to ride slowly to the bar gets thinner every day.

Road [racing] is one of the only sports where adult men can compete in a non-scholastic setting, so inevitably 8/10 racers are fiercely-competitive nobodies. It's fun as hell, but it's also the foremost refuge of defeated and aging jocks, turned middle-management types.

how are those even related? Duno being from east coast ive never understood cali ways. I mean a moped is way closer than a vehicle. Why dump thousands in jdm cars when the whole point of a bike is to get around for cheap.

how are those even related? Duno being from east coast ive never understood cali ways. I mean a moped is way closer than a vehicle. Why dump thousands in jdm cars when the whole point of a bike is to get around for cheap.

Because the whole point of everything you own is to show other people that you're cool.

there will be a surplus of track bikes in 3-5 years when the spikey haired asians and trust-fund hipsters and flat-brim xtreme sports guys decide riding bikes isnt hip anymore (or that bmx bikes work better for tricks) and put everything on ebay to fund their eventual coke habit. I cant wait.

there will be a surplus of track bikes in 3-5 years when the spikey haired asians and trust-fund hipsters and flat-brim xtreme sports guys decide riding bikes isnt hip anymore (or that bmx bikes work better for tricks) and put everything on ebay to fund their eventual coke habit. I cant wait.

there will be a surplus of track bikes in 3-5 years when the spikey haired asians and trust-fund hipsters and flat-brim xtreme sports guys decide riding bikes isnt hip anymore (or that bmx bikes work better for tricks) and put everything on ebay to fund their eventual coke habit. I cant wait.

The same thing happened in the late 1980s/early 1990s after the mountain bike boom. High end mountain bikes were being sold for dirt cheap or in some cases given away. A buddy of mine got a beautiful Cannondale for doing a basic tune-up on some rich deadheds VW.